DevOps Engineer - HabariPay at Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc(GTCO)

Details

• HabariPay is a young start-up on the path to building a pan-African payments unicorn with a high-impact founding team and backing from a multinational financial services company.
• At HabariPay, you will have access to best-in-class tools and resources to enable you solve truly complex problems, developing game changing payments solutions. We provide an enabling environment to deliver quality work by giving flexibility to design a lifestyle that works for you provided business and customer targets are met.
• We prioritize agility which translates into a culture of transparency, open and honest feedback and constant iteration. We are committed to ensuring a professional development that matches industry standards and personal goals.
• We are committed to helping you bridge your skills gap and invest in grooming our talents to be on par with colleagues, globally. We offer a clear career progression path that is comparable to best in class.

Job Summary

• As a DevOps engineer, you will support the maturity of the micro-services architecture for different solutions to achieve full or near-full automation and orchestration of tools.
• You will also support the development teams to improve Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling and ensuring that they adhere to a strict release management cadence through automation.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Automating processes with open-source tools for CI/CD and testing.
• Analyzing, executing, and streamlining DevOps practices.
• Facilitating development processes and operations.
• Establishing a continuous build environment to accelerate software deployment and development processes.
• Instituting a DevOps culture within the solutions development team.
• Architecting overall, comprehensive, and efficient practices.
• Guiding developers and operations teams to resolve issues.
• Implementing and improving monitoring and alerts across the suite of products by automating performance monitoring, reporting any downtimes and carrying out root cause analysis.
• Designing and improving infrastructure and team collaboration.
• Designing a setup environment for users, making the experience better, more automated and intuitive.
• Keeping all code changes within a single system enabling modifications and testing.
• Optimizing product or update release cycles.
• Building a high-quality reusable code that can be used in future developments.
• Creating sustainable and functional web applications with clean codes.
• Learning about new technologies and staying up to date with current best practices.

Job Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or any related courses. 
• 4+ years of experience as a DevOps specialist. 
• 2+ years of hands-on experience of programming in languages such as Node JS, .Net C# or similar object-oriented language.
• Experience with automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure.
• Experience developing cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Code Deploy (AWS) and/or GitLab.
• Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or server less technology.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices.